Category: Flashback

Rhino horn has been used for centuries in “Traditional Chinese Medicine,” though it has no magic properties and is like a fingernail.

The Sophists were unique in their time for questioning the superiority of Greeks to barbarians, men to women, free-born to slaves.

Since it differs from liberal and conservative ideology and from political thought itself, savviness often eludes recognition as a set of beliefs.

The sexual assaults are ruthless, with horrific reports of gang rape, sexual slavery, genital trauma, forced rape between victims and rape in the presence of family members.

“After they raped me, my husband hated me. He said I was dirty. I gave up my dignity for him, how come he can abandon me this way?”

If somebody complains, out it goes.

An article removed from the New Scientist website because they “received a complaint about the contents.”

To read The Language of God is to witness nothing less than an intellectual suicide.

It is pretty uplifting to be a scientist-theologian, happy with the universe, confident of the ways of the Lord.

It was that video at BioLogos…

When scientists feel certain about their explanations, God gets hardly a mention.

The inclusion of Fox News in cable packages was associated with a shift in voting preferences to the right.

Is the Vatican a state or an employer?

Bad thinking, pseudoscience, batshit craziness.

Begg had become a hero of the Amnesty movement. It was dangerous to challenge his status as a perfect victim.

All speaker meetings held on university premises should allow participation by all members of the university.

Alaska Natives accuse the Catholic church of using their remote villages as “dumping grounds” for child-molesting priests.

Encouraging all citizens to engage in prayer is an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function.

She confiscated some books to prevent cheating, and was beaten to death because one was the Koran.

Not enough women have what it takes to behave like arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks.